{"id":873,"date":"2010-12-24T23:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T23:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2010\/12\/24\/and-a-heartwarming-tale\/"},"modified":"2010-12-24T23:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T23:35:45","slug":"and-a-heartwarming-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/and-a-heartwarming-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"And a heartwarming tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, popping in once more to share a video that&#8217;s been circulating.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=1248069482199&#038;playerType=embed\"><\/iframe>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/24\/did-he-leave-a-forwarding-address-yes-the-north-pole\/?scp=1&amp;sq=santa%2022nd%20street&amp;st=cse\">Here&#8217;s the background of the story at the Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>They had handed out a few letters to friends to answer, but not  nearly enough to make a dent in the pile. Each day when one of them  would check the mail more letters would fall out of the box.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>One option: Take the letters to the Main Post Office, where they  would be added to the thousands of other letters sent to Santa each  year. Thoughtful strangers, in a perfect world, would pick them up and  buy the letter writers gifts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>But Jim imagined the worst: \u201cIf we bring them back to the post  office, are all the kids getting a letter back with \u2018Return to Sender\u2019? I  don\u2019t want that to happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And another <a href=\"http:\/\/queernewyorkblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/miracle-on-22nd-street-qny-interview.html\">follow up interview here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>It\u2019s interesting to think about kids growing  up and learning that Santa was really two gay guys in Chelsea. How do  you think that will make them feel?<\/em><br \/><em>Jim: By the time they grow up, it won\u2019t matter. Years from now, they won\u2019t even think in terms of gay or not-gay.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, popping in once more to share a video that&#8217;s been circulating. \u00a0 Here&#8217;s the background of the story at the Times: They had handed out a few letters to friends to answer, but not nearly enough to make a dent in the pile. Each day when one of them would check the mail more letters would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}